Graduates

Former PhD students 2008 -

Her
PhD explored gender differences in the association between marital status and
quality of life in early old age, using the Survey of Health and Ageing in
Europe (SHARE) and ELSA.

She is currently working on a project
funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust examining midlife sleep patterns and
functional health in older people, with the Whitehall II research group at UCL.
Jessica has a BsocSc in Sociology and an Msc in Sociological Research from The
University of Manchester. (25/03/13)

Rebecca Lacey

ICLS / ESRC Research student (2008 - 2012)

Rebecca’s PhD research involved investigating how parental separation experienced in childhood influences psychological distress in adulthood, with a particular focus on explaining why this link exists.

Rebecca has a BSc (Hons) in Human Biology & Health Studies and MSc in Health & Society: Social Epidemiology and she is currently working as a Research Associate on an ERC funded project Health Effects of Social Change in Gender, Work & Family: Life Course Evidence from Britain with Dr Anne McMunn.

Jitka
Pikhartova

UCL / ESRC Research student (2008 - 2012)

Jitka's
PhD research involved investigating parental work-life balance and offspring's
health and well-being in adolescence. Recently, she has been involved in
the analysis of ELSA data focusing on determinants of type-2 diabetes over the
life-course. From spring 2013, she will be involved in the analysis of
ESRC-funded project investigating the role of social isolation and social
relationships on health using ELSA data as a post-doctoral Research Fellow in
Quantitative Gerontology at Brunel University London. (25/03/2013)

Robert de Vries

ICLS/ESRC Research Student (2008 - 2011)

Dr
Robert de Vries was a PhD student and Research Associate at ICLS. His PhD
research focused on investigating the ‘inequality hypothesis’ – the idea that
high levels of economic inequality result in worse population health (among
other things). As a Research Associate he used the English Longitudinal Study
of Ageing(ELSA) to investigate the effects of fuel poverty and poor housing
quality on older people’s health. He left ICLS in 2011 to take up a
postdoctoral research fellowship in the Sociology department at Oxford
University. He is also co-editor of the social science and policy blog Inequalities. (25/03/13)

Ellen
Flint

ICLS /ESRC Research Student (2008 -2011)

Dr Ellen Flint is a Scientific Advisor at the Department for
Work and Pensions. Prior to joining the Civil Service in 2016, Ellen was a
Lecturer in Population Health and MRC Strategic Skills Fellow at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her MRC Fellowship investigated
the relationship between active commuting and obesity in the UK's working
population. Ellen's ESRC-funded PhD research investigated the effects
of economic recession on mental health in the UK using a lifecourse perspective
(UCL, 2008-2012). Her background and training are in Geography (MA
Cantab, 2004–2007), Demography (MSc, LSHTM 2007–2008), lifecourse epidemiology
and quantitative social science. 19/10/2016

The International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and
Health (ICLS) is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) RES-596-28-0001 (2008 - 2012) ES/J019119/1 (2013 - 2017). ICLS is
a multidisciplinary research centre, directed by Professor Amanda
Sacker, that supports research at UCL, University of Manchester,
University of East London, University of Essex and Örebro University
Hospital Sweden.